Giving Up Quotes - Page 23

• A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Cutting, Thinking

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• By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rap, Late, 80s

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• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Real, Rich Life, Acting

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• You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

  Brian Austin Green

  Real, Thinking, One Day

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• One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

  Jeff Goodell

  Believe, America, People

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• Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Guy, Dying

  Song: Racing in the Street, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

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• A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.

  Samuel Crompton

  Mean, Eye, Insecure

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• Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Persistence, Men, Design

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• The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.

  Rachel Billington

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

  Brian Dyson

  Don't Give Up, Trying, Moments

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• It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Believe, Reality, Effort

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• We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Faces, Resurrection

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• Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Attachment, Soul

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• You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

  Ann Voskamp

  Needs, World, Christ

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Optimistic, Kids, Rocks

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• If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Support You, Ideas

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• Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
  that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

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  Ram Dass

  Ocean, Helping, Found

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of our practices-perso nal, family, ethnic, and national-that are contrary to the commandments of God. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Mean, Practice

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Football, Believe, Player

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• Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Kids, Life Is, Giving In

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• You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

  Russell Simmons

  Success, Business, Mean

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• The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

  Louis J. Freeh

  People, Safety, Degrees

  "A Push for Surveillance Software". Interview with John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.

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• Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

  Peter Coyote

  Choices, Limits, Advertising

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